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J. KRUSE.

7 METHOD OF PACKING CIGARS. No. 457,401, Patented Aug. 11, 1891.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN KRUSE, OF NE? YORK, N. Y.

METHOD OF PACKING CIGARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 457,401, dated August11, 1891.

Application filed April15, 1391. Serial No. 388,971- (No model.)

To all whmn it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JOHN KRUSE, of New York city, New York, haveinvented an'Improved Method of Packing Cigars, of which the following isa specification.

This invention relates to an improved method of packing cigars, by whichall the advantages connected with the bundling of cigars are retainedwithout, however, retaining the objectionable features of such bundling.

The invention consists in the various features of improvement more fullypointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a top view of a box of cigarspacked according to my improved method. Fig. 2 is a verticallongitudinal section of the same, and Fig. 3 a perspective view ofitheempty box.

In carrying out my invention I first pack loosely into the box a thecigars that constitute all but the top layer. Thus when the box is madeto contain fifty cigars to be arranged in four layers I first pack thethree bottom layers in the ordinary manner. On packing the top layer Iemploy a ribbon A, made fast at one end to the inner side of thecigar-box and loose at the other end, Fig. 3. This ribbon is alternatelypassed below and above the cigars constituting the top layer as thelatter is packed into the box. The number of cigars embraced by theribbon may be varied at pleasure to produce various effects. Thedrawings show it passed alternately beneath one cigar and above fivecigars; but

different arrangements will readily suggest themselves. After the toplayer has thus been packed the ribbon is grasped by its loose end and isdrawn taut (the cigars being held down by the hand) to produce a smoothsurface. The end of the ribbon is clasped between the last cigar b andthe side of the box. I

If desired, two ribbons may be employed in lieu of one ribbon, asindicated by the dotted lines, Fig. 1.

The appearance of the cigars in the box will be the same as if bundled,and as the loose end of the ribbon is tightly held in place the ribbonwill hold all the cigars properly down, the same as is the case withbundled cigars; but as the ribbon is not tied around and does notencircle a bunch or bunches of the cigars it will not be apt todisfigure them, as heretofore, by gradually working into the wrappers.Moreover, the cigars can be readily removed, and the ribbon need only bea trifle longer than the box itself.

What I claim is' The method of packing cigars, which consists in looselyplacing the bottom layers into the box and passing a ribbon alternatelyabove and below the cigars constituting the top layer, substantially asspecified.

JOHN KRUSE. Witnesses:

F. v. BRIESEN, '1. J. CoAN.

